1. 9.4 Notes

2.  How did the British Conquer India?  British took advantage of India’s divisions/ diversity  Used superior weapons

3.  British Policy  Make money  Improve roads  Preserve peace  Western education/ legal  Missionaries  Ended “sati”- Hindu custom of having wife kill herself when husband dies

4.  Sepoy- Indian soldiers in service to the East India Co.  They required them to serve anywhere even overseas  Allowed Hindu women to remarry  Issued rifle cartridges greased with animal fat that you had to bite off to use  Troops refused for religious reasons

5.  Sepoy Rebellion- Sepoys rose up and massacred British  British retaliated and torched villages and slaughtering thousands  British crown took direct control of India

6.  British viceroy governed  Unequal partnership  British put in railroads, telegraphs, medical advances, forced growing of cash crops  Policies also led to deforestation and famine from rapid population growth

7.  Ram Mohun Roy- father of Indian nationalism  founded Hindu College in India (English style education)  Roy also helped reform Indian culture  Helped end rigid class distinctions  Helped end Purdah- isolation of women in separate quarters

8.  Western-educated Indians emerged  Turn against Britain  Indian National Congress- In 1885 nationalist leaders organize the Congress party  Called for greater democracy  Muslim League- Muslim formed own party supported a Muslim state.